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AI Identifies Author of Charred Scroll Buried by Vesuvius for 2,000 Years
A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual unwrapping.
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How AI is revealing lost secrets of the Roman Empire
Team leader Youssef Nader and two other team members used AI to reveal 15 columns of ... a historian and podcaster who studies ancient Greece and Rome. But if the library is located, it will ...
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AI decodes title and author of charred, still-rolled scroll after nearly 2,000 years
PHerc. 172 is one of hundreds of scrolls found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, buried under volcanic debris of ...
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AI Is Deciphering Ancient Inscriptions That Experts Have Struggled With for Centuries
These scrolls, discovered in the ruins of the Roman city of Herculaneum ... Meanwhile, Korean researchers are using AI to ...
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AI gives first tantalising look inside a 2,000- year-old Roman scroll
The contents of a 2,000-year-old burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum have been seen for the first time with the help of artificial intelligence (AI ... to read ancient scrolls launched ...
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How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history
The first big project to show AI’s potential began life as a collaboration at the University of Oxford, UK, in 2017, where Thea Sommerschield was doing a PhD in ancient history and Yannis Assael ...